Kenneth Min Chyh Lim

Studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He was 2nd prize winner of the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto Prize and 1st prize winner of the Delia Hall Accompaniment Prize.

He took up piano lessons at the age of 6 and obtained the LTCL performance diploma in 2010. Ken studies with Anthony Hewitt at the Conservatoire, in addition to master classes with Katherine Stott, Orit Wolf, Andrew West and Jerome Reed. His previous teachers include Chin Ying Soong, Ng Chong Lim and Samuel Tan.

In 2012, Ken received the Patron’s Award for Piano Solo above 18 in the Malaysian Youth Orchestral Foundation’s music festival. In the same year, he joined the ASEAN Contemporary Music Ensemble conducted by Peter Veale to collaborate with musicians from Germany, Singapore and Thailand as they premiered new music composed by young composers. He also studied composition with Yii Kah Hoe and one of his pieces was a part of the Malaysian Sound-Bridge festival.

Pongpat Pogpradit

is head of the classical guitar department and lecturer at the Silpakorn University in Bangkok. He is the director of the Silpakorn International Guitar Festival and member of the Thailand Guitar Society. Pongpat regularly performs on many International Guitar Festivals in South East Asia and on other international stages.

 

 

Sakano Issei 

Born from parents who love music, he started piano at the age of three. He had been studying piano, music theory and composition under Japanese teachers for 15 years. After coming to Cambodia in 1992, he had been away from music for years, but has resumed musical activities recently. He is currently working for legal and judicial reform in Cambodia as Japanese expert to Cambodian Ministry of Justice and at the same time, making performance occasionally in Phnom Penh mainly as a piano accompanist as well as some Piano Four-Hands projects.

 

Katy Lo Wing  

is a pianist and a piano teacher based in Phnom Penh. She has been classically trained in Hong Kong since the age of four and is certified by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. After graduating from university, Katy moved to Phnom Penh in 2012 and started teaching and giving concerts ever since. Katy has a genuine love of music and always inspires that passion in others, especially her students. She now gives individual piano lessons at The International School of Phnom Penh.